When restoring a previous Firefox session, minimised windows appear briefly

[James Haigh]

When restoring from many windows and tabs, windows flicker around for a while. This includes windows that were minimised when Firefox was closed. The window opens then minimises a moment later, unless it is the original window which stays unminimised.

Tested on Natty.

Steps to reproduce:
* Start a guest session.
* Launch Firefox.
* Edit Preferences to 'Show my windows and tabs from last time'.
* Hold Ctrl-T for a second.
* Load a specific page to make a note of the original window. (Ex: ddg.gg)
* Press Ctrl-N.
* Hold Ctrl-T for a second.
* Repeat the previous 2 steps until there are 10 windows in total.
(See screenshot '10-windows.png')
* Press Super-D.
* Press Alt-Tab.
(See screenshot 'all-but-1-minimised.png')
Notice that only 1 window is unminimised and it isn't the original.
* Press Ctrl-Q.
* Launch Firefox.
(See screenshot 'bugs-on-restore.png')
Notice the flickering of windows appearing and minimising.
Notice that the original window is unminimised, so there are now 2 unminimised windows.

Minimised windows shouldn't even appear; they should /start/ minimised. The original window should also stay minimised.

Other bugs:
I expect you will also trigger this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/803831
Notice also that in half of the windows, globalmenu-extension stops working. (See screenshot 'restored-unminimised.png')

[James Haigh (james.r.haigh)]

This and related bugs are the only thing stopping me from launching Firefox from my Startup Applications.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

James,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu and Firefox since that time.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported? Please let us know if you do.

If we do not hear from you this bug report will close in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]